Sleep experts say we should get an average of eight hours of restful sleep every night. Yet how many of us actually do? For some of us, we don’t get enough sleep simply because we don’t make enough time for it. But for others, a lack of sleep is due to the inability to get comfortable and relax.

Before we start relying on medications to help us sleep there are some other things we should try. Remember that sleep medications can cause dependency, which is never a good thing. Below are four tips that may help solve any sleep issues you might have.

1. Sleeping on the Right Bed

You probably know by now that not all beds are created equal. But what you may not know is that not all beds are equally comfortable for all types of sleepers. Therefore, it’s incumbent to take the time to look at all of your options when you’re shopping for a new bed or a replacement mattress. This might involve several weekends of going to bedding and furniture stores and laying on dozens of different models. But it’s well worth the time and effort. Once you find the right bed for you it will change the way you sleep.

The most common type of bed is the inner-spring mattress and box spring combination. While these types of beds have been the market leader for generations they are often uncomfortable for people with back pain, arthritis, and other health problems. For them, a better choice is a foam mattress or an adjustable air mattress. Both of these types of beds are relatively new to the market (within the last 20 to 30 years) but both offer benefits you can’t get with an inner-spring mattress.

It’s not possible to say that one specific type of mattress is right for everyone. If you have trouble deciding after several weeks of shopping, you might want to consult your doctor and get his advice. He may know why you’re suffering from sleep issues and he might be able to recommend a possible solution.

2. Preparing Your Bedroom

Your bedroom should be a place of relaxation, solace, and rest. Therefore, decorate in a way that is soothing and relaxing. For example, experts claim that for most people the colour red is a stimulant. Painting your bedroom walls bright red and accessorizing with red and white combinations may be just visually stimulating enough to interruption sleep. Try more soothing colours like soft grey, peach, mother of pearl, etc.

If the television is too much of a distraction for you, you might want to remove it from your bedroom as well. It doesn’t do any good to promise yourself you’ll be in bed by 11 o’clock only to stay up until one o’clock watching television. The same can be said for music players, computer game consoles, and anything else that would keep you from sleep.

If outside noise interrupts your sleep you might try getting a white noise machine. A white noise machine plays something that’s calming and soothing in the background, such as a waterfall or chirping birds, allowing you to fall asleep while masking the sounds from outdoors. A white noise machine has been a godsend for many people who have trouble sleeping.

3. Prepare Yourself for Sleep

Experts say that moderate exercise actually increases our energy for the first hour or so afterwards. As a general rule you probably should do your daily exercise in the morning rather that night just before you go to bed. If you must do your workout routine in the evening, make sure it’s completed at least two hours before bedtime. Furthermore, some people benefit from a cup of tea, a glass of warm milk, or a glass of wine before bedtime. Whatever you do, don’t eat large amounts of food just before turning in.

4. Be Consistent

One of the best things you can do to ensure restful sleep is to be as consistent as possible about your bedtime and your wake-up time. The human body much works on a cyclical inner-clock; the more you can stay on that schedule the easier it is for your body to sleep when it’s supposed to and remain awake and alert at other times.

If you work a rotating shift you’ll probably have a difficult time maintaining a consistent schedule. For the rest of us however, a consistent schedule should be a real possibility. Sweet dreams!

Many people consider the modern motor car to be one of the best inventions in the history of the world; just imagine where we would be and how different our daily lives would be if we did not have the ability to use vehicles to travel around in. Certainly the environmental health of the plant may have been a lot better, but car manufacturers are increasingly turning to new technologies to refine the way motor vehicles are produced and driven and are constantly working to reduce the impact that driving has on our planet. JenningsKia is one of the few car manufacturers who have responded to the public’s growing interest in, and desire for hybrid motor vehicles. Kia introduced their range of hybrid cars after debuting them to motor journalists at the Paris Motor Show in 2008; many car manufacturers are still yet to respond to the need for a hybrid vehicle and this has helped to push Kia to the forefront of the motoring industry.

Environmental concerns

Ask a group of motorists what their biggest concerns are when it comes to motoring and many will raise the issue of the rising fuel costs that is affecting their everyday driving habits; perhaps a more vital concern, and one that should be in the mind of every driver in the country, is the effect that their motoring has on the environment. Hybrid vehicles, such as those manufactured by Kia, are due to become ever more present on our roads as more motorists come to realise the importance of keeping emissions down. A hybrid vehicle combines element of a traditional vehicle motor with an additional electronic element. A traditional vehicle motor consists of an internal combustion engine; however hybrid vehicles have a smaller version of this but also contain one or more electric batteries. These two parts of the engine work in conjunction with each other to reduce the overall emission. There are also electric vehicles that have been developed that fully run from electric batteries; however these need to be refined further in order to make them a viable option for every motorist.

Further information

You might think that as a hybrid vehicle is a fairly new development that they may be some of the most expensive vehicles there are to buy; this is simply not the case. Many hybrid ranges have vehicles that cost the same price as a standard vehicle. Not only are these types of vehicle far more environmentally friendly, they can also help to reduce the costs of your everyday motoring; something most drivers wish they could reduce. As you are using your usually combustion engine in conjunction with an electric battery you will not need to fill up your vehicle with fuel so often; this can help save hundreds of pounds every year. There are also schemes in place that offer good discounts on hybrid vehicles in an effort to encourage more people to consider buying one.

Melting of the ICE caps

The Ice caps at the north and more prominently in the south are in grave danger! This is no joke the current estimate is within 20 years that the majority of ice in these regions will melt raising sea levels massively arround the globe.

The melting of the ICE will occur in our lifetime!

It may be all very well that you can buy a nice watch ticwatches but this is a serious business! Manufacturing is worsening global warming and if anybody watched frozen planet on the TV last week will have seen lots of great and fascinating imagery taken by the frozen ice planet team but the reality is grim.

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THERE’S a line in the song Golddigger, which topped the charts a few years ago for Kanye West, which says of a American footballer who gets taken to the cleaners by his ex-girlfriend:

“Wins the Superbowl on a Sunday, then drives off in a Hyundai.”

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